You mean like the Nintendo DS / Wii Drawn to Life games? My wife (a digital artist) got a kick out of that and the game looked a lot cooler than my junky stick figures.
I enjoy these coding exercises, and use them for a sort of brain teaser. I have tried a bunch of the Java ones at codingbat.com and it is interesting to compare my results to the progress graphs of other random users.
Would that sort of minimal IDE help or hurt this type of test? Nothing else to get in the way, and you get immediate feedback on your answer. Would it be better to see a candidate initially fail the test cases and then correct them or spend the time to run through it in his brain instead?
It feels like there is little reason for me to actively participate in the discussions. Even though I have been reading for years, I don't feel any reason to comment unless I have something really important to say. It can take a lot of effort to put together a good post, only to have it ignored because it was not within the first group of comments or down-modded anyway. I don't want to spout of some mindless meme or bad joke (most of the time), and I don't have time to waste just to build up enough karma so people will pay attention.
Without a reason to post, I won't get mod points. Without any mod points, I won't really be able to be part of the discussion. So, until then, Slashdot won't have my contribution and will be worse off for it (imo).
What I would like to see is a way of better including the many readers who do not comment. How about randomly picking people who are reading an article (and haven't commented in a while), and ask what they think. The community will see more than just the usual voices. An automatic moderation added to one of the randomly picked representatives will get the voice of the average Slashdot reader included.
I have some friends who are working on preserving Everquest as it was in 1999... http://www.project1999.org/ It takes a lot of work because without the server code and data, it will never be exactly as it was. It's amazing what people can reverse engineer out of it though.
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You mean like the Nintendo DS / Wii Drawn to Life games? My wife (a digital artist) got a kick out of that and the game looked a lot cooler than my junky stick figures.
I enjoy these coding exercises, and use them for a sort of brain teaser. I have tried a bunch of the Java ones at codingbat.com and it is interesting to compare my results to the progress graphs of other random users.
Would that sort of minimal IDE help or hurt this type of test? Nothing else to get in the way, and you get immediate feedback on your answer. Would it be better to see a candidate initially fail the test cases and then correct them or spend the time to run through it in his brain instead?
It feels like there is little reason for me to actively participate in the discussions. Even though I have been reading for years, I don't feel any reason to comment unless I have something really important to say. It can take a lot of effort to put together a good post, only to have it ignored because it was not within the first group of comments or down-modded anyway. I don't want to spout of some mindless meme or bad joke (most of the time), and I don't have time to waste just to build up enough karma so people will pay attention.
Without a reason to post, I won't get mod points. Without any mod points, I won't really be able to be part of the discussion. So, until then, Slashdot won't have my contribution and will be worse off for it (imo).
What I would like to see is a way of better including the many readers who do not comment. How about randomly picking people who are reading an article (and haven't commented in a while), and ask what they think. The community will see more than just the usual voices. An automatic moderation added to one of the randomly picked representatives will get the voice of the average Slashdot reader included.
I have some friends who are working on preserving Everquest as it was in 1999... http://www.project1999.org/ It takes a lot of work because without the server code and data, it will never be exactly as it was. It's amazing what people can reverse engineer out of it though.
Virtual avatars can't punch them in the face. Let's see those cyber punks talk trash now.
Not another Domesday scenario! I prefer cubes...